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The Revolution of 1789
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name the type of people in the First, Second and Third Estate? | First-Clergy Second-Nobles Third-Everyone else in the kingdom, but were drawn from wealthy members of the commercial or professional middle class |
| What group demanded that each state have an equal number of representatives? | The Assembly of Notables |
| What happened in December 1788? | The council announced the Third Estate would elect twice as many representatives as either the nobles or the clergy, which helped them easily dominate the Estates General. |
| A list of grievances registered by the local electors, to be presented to the King were known as? | Cahiers de Doleances |
| What happened on June 1? | The Third Estate invited the clergy and nobles to join in organizing a new legislative body. |
| What was the National Assembly renamed to and why? | It was renamed to the National Constituent Assembly because of its intention to write a new constitution. |
| In what year did large crowds of Parisians, most of them shopkeeper, tradespeople, artisans, and wage earners, marched to Bastille to get weapons for militia | July 14, 1789 |
| What was Bastille? | Ten-foot-thick walls that once held political prisoners. |
| Who did the militia of Paris offer its command to on July 15? | Marquis de Lafayette |
| What does this journees? | Days on which populace of Paris redirected the course of the revolution |
| What was the burning of chateaux? | The destruction of legal records and documents, and the refusal to pay feudal dues. |
| What happened after the night of August 4, 1789? | All French citizens received equal laws no matter your wealth or birth, and this opened military positions, careers and advancement to talent. |
| What did the French Declaration state? | It stated that all men were “born and remain free and equal in rights”. |
| Who was the declaration directed to and why? | It was directed to men because women were only good for motherhood. |
| 7,000 Parisian women marched to Versailles with knives, guns, swords and pikes demanding more bread on what day? | October 5 |
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